By afternoon, even diehard supporters were resigned to the fact that their man Lhota was going to lose. At least one looked to the future, tweeting the vaguely threatening slogan “Lhota 2017 — by then you’ll get it.”

The declarations that the race was a foregone conclusion kept rolling in all day long, even as Lhota told reporters he was practicing his victory speech. It was enough to make a person actively root for Lhota to pull out a late surge, conjure up some kind of “Dewey Defeats Truman” shocker — but, alas, at 9 p.m. exit polls were projecting the predictable: Bill de Blasio by a landslide.

737,786 New Yorkers cast their votes for de Blasio — he won 73.6%, compared to Lhota’s 24%.

At his victory party Tuesday night, De Blasio took the stage to the anti-capitalist anthem “Royals” by Lorde, and he echoed the 16-year-old Kiwi singer’s message in his remarks.

“When we call on the wealthiest among us to pay just a little more in taxes to fund universal pre-K and after-school programs, we aren’t threatening anyone’s success. We are asking those who have done very well to ensure that every child has the same opportunity to do just as well as they have,” de Blasio said. “That’s how we all rise together.”

‘The World Trade Center was conceived by vested interests, promoted by pressure groups, brought into being by a handful of powerful men for reasons of monetary gain or personal pressure, and indirectly subsidized by the taxpayer’